Total bail for Mother's Day shooting suspect Akein Scott, facing 20 counts of attempted murder, was set at $10 million during a hearing in New Orleans Criminal District Court on Thursday (May 16). Magistrate Judge Gerard Hansen set the amount at $500,000 for each count in a hearing attended by about two-dozen spectators, mostly law enforcement and news media.

Later, Scott was led to a proceeding related a previous gun and drug charge. There, Judge Arthur Hunter ordered Scott to be held on no bail until Tuesday after prosecutors argued that the defendant was a danger to society. On Tuesday, there will be a hearing to reconsider Scott's bail.

Scott, being represented by the Public Defender's Office, was arrested late Wednesday night. Police say he fired bullets into a large crowd at a second-line parade in the 7th Ward mid-day Sunday and was recorded doing so on video from various angles.

NOPD released surveillance footage Monday of the Mother's Day shooting, which occurred at the corner of Frenchmen and North Villere streets. That night, at a news conference, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas announced that Scott was wanted in the attack.

Scott eluded capture until late Wednesday night, when authorities apprehended him at an address in the 7500 block of Kingsport Boulevard in eastern New Orleans. Police subsequently booked Scott on 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder, a crime that is punishable by up to 50 years in prison.

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The gunfire Sunday wounded 10 men, seven women and two 10-year-old children -- a boy and a girl. Three people remained in the hospital Wednesday in stable to critical condition, officials said.

Incidentally, Scott was supposed to appear in Criminal District Court on Thursday on an unrelated gun and drug charge stemming from an arrest in March. Smiling in court but not speaking, he was taken to that proceeding after the bail hearing in front of Hansen.

At the time of the shooting Sunday, Scott was out on $15,000 bail -- too light for the nature of the pending firearm and narcotics case against him, in the opinion of Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro.

At noon, Landrieu, Serpas and other New Orleans officials will host a press conference at the scene of Sunday's shooting to discuss the case against Scott. Check back with NOLA.com for a story on that briefing later.

The charge from March and his arrest in the Mother's Day shooting are not Scott's only brushes with the law. His criminal record dates to at least when he was 17.

On Sept. 9, 2010, he was booked with allegedly having an alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle, Municipal Court records show. That case is pending.

His next arrest was more serious. On Feb. 29, 2012, at his home in Broadmoor, Scott attacked an individual named Michael Lewis "for mouthing off to him," Municipal Court records state. The incident was recorded on video.

Scott pleaded no contest to a simple battery charge on March 5, 2012. He received a suspended, 25-day jail sentence from Municipal Court Judge Sean Early.

Scott graduated from Miller-McCoy Academy in May 2012, the school has said. He enrolled at Talladega College in Alabama in the fall.